All posts by Keith

I’m a controversialist and catalyst, quietly enabling others to develop by providing different ideas and views of the world. Born in London in the early 1950s and initially trained as a research chemist I retired as a senior project manager after 35 years in the IT industry. Retirement is about community give-back and finding some equilibrium. Founder and Honorary Secretary of the Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group.
amusements, nudism, quotes

I Don't Believe It!

Surfing the intertubes, as you do, I have just happened upon an Australian men’s underwear and swimwear company called …  

COCKSOX

In my defence I was actually looking for swimwear! 

I can’t help feeling that only Australians would get away with it!

photography

Thing-a-Day 01; Self Portrait

I thought I should start this year’s Thing-a-Day with a self portrait, but given that I look so scruffy as well as fat and unfit it seemed better to doctor the results in PaintShopPro!  So here I am this morning standing outside the supermarket.

arts, books, topographical

Magnificent Maps


Image by courtesy of The Guardian.

Thanks to IanVisits I’ve just spotted what looks to be a fascinating exhibition at the British Library, from April 2010.

Maps can be works of art, propaganda pieces, expressions of local pride, tools of indoctrination … Opening in April 2010, Magnificent Maps showcases the British Library’s unique collection of large-scale display maps, many of which have never been exhibited before, and demonstrates why maps are about far more than geography.

And it’s free!  Has to be worth a visit.

memes

Thing-a-Day

I’ve just signed up for this year’s Thing-a-Day which means I also now have a Posterous account.   Aarrrgggghhhhh!!!!  Yes this is another blogging tool I really didn’t need.  But hey, ho!

This is really by way of a test message to see how posting by email to Posterous actually works – and where the results end up!

Keith

memes, personal, photography

My Friends Meme


My Friends Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to use the first names of 12 friends and see what we get.

So I chose: Gabriella, Sue, Stephen, Rob, Tom, Christine, Malin, Ziggy, Prue, Les, John and Katy.

1. Don’t Go Yet, 2. Sue W., 3. tempest three, 4. Very sticky flip-flops that don’t flop!, 5. Naked Bill But Still Beautiful, 6. In A Dream With You, 7. encadrée, 8. Angelic Fruitcake, 9. Parisian Stories 5 – The Brawl 15, 10. NYC – MoMA: Pablo Picasso’s Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery), 11. INTO THE SUN. PAINTING BY JOHN P. BUTLER, 12. Katy Kitchen

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys